Does a word or emoji matter? ๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ๐Ÿ“Ž๐Ÿงท

16 januari 2025

In the fastest growing language, women are under-represented. There are 7 emojiโ€™s for books lying flat on their backs ๐Ÿ“—๐Ÿ“”๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿ“™๐Ÿ“˜๐Ÿ“’๐Ÿ““, we have a couple of paperclips ๐Ÿ–‡๏ธ๐Ÿ“Ž๐Ÿงท and more magnifying glasses ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿ”Ž, Neptune swords ๐Ÿ”ฑ, bombs ๐Ÿ’ฃ and future-telling glasses ๐Ÿ”ฎ than you and I will come across in an average year.

๐๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฆ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ž๐ช๐ฎ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฅ๐โ€™๐ฌ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง?
Nowhere to be found.

 

๐“๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ˆ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐š
pad ๐Ÿ–ฒ๏ธ (itโ€™s a trackball?*)
tampon ๐Ÿฆฏ (white cane?**)
cup โ˜•
or disc ๐Ÿฅ (flying disc โ€“ bit oversized, but itโ€™ll do)

๐“๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ž ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐š ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ฃ๐ข ๐ซ๐ž๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ž-๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ซ๐ ๐š๐ง (๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ๐ฎ๐ฌ)
Though other body parts are includedโ€ฆ.
๐Ÿซฐ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿผ๐Ÿฆต๐Ÿผ๐Ÿซ€๐Ÿซ๐Ÿง ๐Ÿฆท๐Ÿฆด๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ‘„๐Ÿ‘ฃ๐Ÿฆป(hearing aid! love it) ๐Ÿ’๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘ƒ๐Ÿพ๐Ÿซถ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿ’…๐Ÿผ๐Ÿคณ๐Ÿป

 

๐ƒ๐จ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ž๐ซ?
Yes it does.

Taboo words are socially labeled undesirable. They can even be sanctioned by institutions of power***.

Quite like how many AI tools still consider the word โ€œperiodโ€ offensive (2024) and thus wonโ€™t create the requested image.

In other words (pun intended) once words are not available, they enter the taboo realm.

๐’๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ก๐š๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ž๐ฆ๐จ๐ฃ๐ขโ€™๐ฌ, ๐œ๐จ๐ง๐๐ž๐ฆ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ ๐ง๐š๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ฅ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ.

A period emoji was proposed in 2017. But it was rejected, for โ€œnot being relatable enoughโ€
๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ ๐ž๐ญ๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ž… ๐›๐ž๐œ๐š๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ข๐ญ ๐ฐ๐š๐ฌ ๐๐ž๐œ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ ๐š๐ ๐š๐ข๐ง ๐ข๐ง 2024…
The tampon was declined in 2019….
The uterus was declined in July 2024…

Source: Unicode Consortium – Emoji Proposal Status
https://lnkd.in/eidqh8yq

If something that 4 billion people experience is not relatable enoughโ€ฆ

โ€ฆ Iโ€™ll eat my hat for breakfast
๐ŸŽฉ๐ŸŽ“โ›‘๏ธ๐Ÿ‘’๐Ÿค ๐Ÿ‘ท for ๐Ÿฅž๐Ÿง‡๐Ÿฅ“๐Ÿณ๐Ÿฅฃ๐Ÿž๐Ÿฅš๐Ÿฃ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿฅฏ๐Ÿฉ๐Ÿฅง๐Ÿ“๐ŸŽ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ’๐ŸŠ๐Ÿฅจ๐Ÿฅช๐Ÿฅ™

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Stigmaโ€™s, taboes en de onderwerpen waar mensen meestal flink ongemakkelijk van worden, adresseer ik juist wel. Op toegankelijke, laagdrempelige wijze. Vaak met humor. Nog veel vaker vanuit de biologische achtergrond. En altijd met respect voor een diversiteit aan zienswijzen.

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